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Celebration of the 250th 
Anniversary of the Town 
of Northfield, Massachu 
setts :: June, 1613-1923 












OFFICIAL PROGRAM 


OF THE 

250th Anniversary Celebration 


OF THE 


Town of Northfield, Mass. 

>> 


June 22, 23 and 24, 1923 


NORTHFIELD PRESS, NORTHFIELD, MASS. 








Historical Sketch 


THE SETTLEMENT OF NORTHFIELD. 

Before the exploration by white men, and the settlement of 
the town of Northfield, the territory was occupied by a tribe of 
Indians called the Squakheags, a name meaning “A spearing place 
for salmon”. 

Many evidences of this occupation have been discovered, prov¬ 
ing that nearly every bluff along the river with an adjacent brook 
was the site of an Indian village. Among such sites the one 
west of Bennett’s Meadow' Bridge is noted as the home of King 
Philip from February to April, 1676. 

Little is known of the antecedent history of this tribe, but it 
is known that they were attacked by the Mohawks in 1663, who 
in turn were unsuccessfully attacked by the Squakheags in 1669. 

At about this time the white men appeared, and were welcomed 
as possible allies against the Mohawks. A sale of land was 
negotiated with the Indians, who probably failed to understand 
its full significance, and they continued to occupy their villages 
on the land thus sold. 

Relations with the white men were friendly except during 
periods of temporary hostility and when incited to war by the 
enemies of the English. 

THE FIRST SETTLEMENT. 

The first steps towards the settlement of Squakheag were taken 
in 1670. A party frrom Northampton, including Joseph Par¬ 
sons, Sr., William Janes, George Alexander and Micah Mudge, 
examined the location and found the Indians anxious to sell. 
These men, with Caleb Pomeroy, made the purchase in 1671. 
The original purchase contained about 10,500 acres. The sum 
paid is unknown, but an additional payment was made in 1686, 
as the Indians were dissatisfied with the original price, and a 
clear and satisfactory title was given. A second purchase was 
made in 1673 on the west bank of the Connecticut, containing 
3000 acres. These two tracts comprised the town during the 
first settlement. 

The first settlers arrived in the spring of 1673, and with them 
came Elder Janes. A religious service was held under an oak 
tree, standing until 1869. A stockade was built, houses were 



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commenced, and crops planted. There were sixteen families and 
eighty to ninety persons in this group of settlers. 

The site of this stockade and the location of the oak tree are 
properly marked. They are near the south end of Main street. 

The first settlement was short-lived. In 1675 the Indians be¬ 
came hostile, and after attacks on Brookfield in August, and on 
Deerfield in September, Northfield was ravaged and the settlers 
were compelled to abandon the territory. 

The heroic efforts made by Captain Beers of Hadley to save 
Northfield from the savages were unavailing. An ambuscade 
threw his company into confusion and proved fatal to himself. 
The place of the battle on “Beers Plain” and the traditional 
grave of the leader are commemorated by suitable markers. 

Additional forces from Hadley soon reached Northfield and 
guarded the remaining settlers to safety, and Northfield was 
abandoned. 

THE SECOND SETTLEMENT. 

After seven years, in 1682, steps were taken to re-settle the 
town, and a petition was presented to the General Court, who 
appointed a new committee to oversee the settlement. In 1683 
rules for the settlement were agreed^ upon, and in 16’84 streets 
were laid out, and perhaps some crops planted. In the spring of 
1685 twenty families arrived. Additional land was granted on 
the south, extending the boundary to Four Mile Brook. The 
lands were apportioned to the settlers, such apportionment ex¬ 
tending beyond the mouth of the Ashuelot River, thus including 
portions of the present towns of Hinsdale and Winchester, New 
Hampshire, and Vernon, Vermont. 

The first town meeting was held March 18, 1686. A second 
fort was built on the Pentecost Place, and a well dug which still 
remains. The site of the fort is now indicated by a marker. 

In 1687 another purchase was made from the Indians, “in 
consideration of the sum tof forty-five pounds in trade”. 

In 1688, as prosperity seemed within their grasp, the settlers 
were again subjected to Indian attacks and savage atrocities. 

This was in part at least because the enmities between France 
and England were transferred to their colonies, the Indians be¬ 
ing incited to this attack by the French. 

Northfield was the most northern town in this valley, and so 
was the outpost most exposed to attack. Hopeless of successful 
defense, the County Court ordered the settlers on June 25, 1790, 
“to transport their corn and live stock to Springfield within six 
to eight days”. This ended the second attempt at settlement. 


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THE THIRD SETTLEMENT. 

Not until peace came between the Mother countries did the per¬ 
manent settlement of Northfield occur. Thus an interim of 
twenty-four years passed. In 1714 the General Court for the 
third time granted permission for the settlement, appointed a 
new committee to oversee the settlement, named the town 
“Northfield”, and fixed certain conditions to be fulfilled by this 
town in “Hampshire Clounty”, Franklin County not being organ¬ 
ized until nearly one hundred years later. 

About twenty men came forward either in their own right, or 
in a right by inheritance or purchase, to become settlers, and in 
the next few years the old landmarks were re-established, the 
highways re-laid, and a minister, the Rev. James Whitmore, 
fresh from Yale College, was engaged at a salary of “twenty- 
five pounds, a house and subsistence for himself and a horse”. 

On March 17, 1717, the settlers first elected town officers, 
subject to the approval of the Committee appointed by the Gen¬ 
eral Oourt to oversee the settlement of the town. Rev. Benja¬ 
min Doolittle was engaged as minister, the contract with Mr. 
Whitmore having expired, and in the year following a church 
was built and he was called to be the pastor. The people agreed 
to give him “for his encouragement” a house, fifty acres of 
meadow and swamp land, ten acres of pasture land, lone hundred 
pounds in money payable within three years, and fifty-five pounds 
annually for the first five years, and seventy-five pounds there¬ 
after, and a yearly supply of wood. 

The Rev. Benjamin Doolittle was also a regularly educated 
physician, and, as time passed, his medical work interfered some¬ 
what with his ministerial duties. 

On April 11, 1722, the townspeople voted farms of equal 
size, about 700 acres in all, to the three members of the com¬ 
mittee as compensation for their services in settling the town. 
These farms have since been called “Northfield Farms”. 

A survey of the town made at this time fixed the following 
boundaries: On the east side of the Connecticut, twelve miles 
north from Four Mile Brook. On the west side, eight miles 
north from Bennett’s Brook. These boundaries included con¬ 
siderable portions of what are now Gill, Mass.; Vernon, Vt.; and 
Winchester and Hinsdale, N. H. This survey was confirmed by 
the General Court on June 21, 1733, after considerable hesita¬ 
tion. This section of Gill was set off from Northfield in 1795. 

On June 15, 1723, the “General Assembly for the Province 
of Massachusetts Bay, held at Boston” granted the petition of 


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NORTHFIELD ANNIVERSARY 


the proprietors and inhabitants of North,field for the incorpora¬ 
tion of their town, and the Committee which had managed it 
hitherto under appointment by the General Court was discharged. 

While the trials of the early settlers and their dangers from 
Indian attack were not removed, never after this was the town 
in danger of being abandoned. And when in 1724, Fort Dim¬ 
mer was erected in the southern part of what is now Brattleboro, 
Northfield was no longer subject to direct attack by the Indians. 
For fifty years she had stood on the northern border with only 
enemies in the vast region to the north reaching to Canada. 

LATER HISTORY. 

The purpose of this sketch is to give an outline of the settle¬ 
ments of Northfield only. Her growth during the one hundred 
and, (fifty years after incorporation followed the lines taken by 
other rural towns where agricultural interests predominate. 

The first fifty years were stirring, dramatic, tragic. They 
abounded in all that makes history appealing and men heroic. 
The adventure into the wilderness, the struggle with natural 
conditions, the fight with savages, the constant fear of attack, 
the incessant need for caution and preparation for defense—all 
these conditions were present, and played their part in the de¬ 
velopment of character among the early settlers and their de¬ 
scendants. But these conditions were present in other towns, 
and played the same part in them. In this Northfield was not 
distinctive. It is the last fifty years that have made Northfield 
noted. Her early sons were heroic, as all pioneers must be, and 
they contributed their quota to the story of self-sacrifice by which 
the land was won, and, like others of similar heroism, they have 
lost much of their individuality, like common soldiers on the 
battle field who do their duty, make their sacrifices, and pass on. 

MR. D. L. MOODY. 

The last fifty years have through her greatest son made North- 
field known throughout the world as few if any small towns in 
this country are known. Through him a contribution has been 
made to the world, not alone by his personality and his preach¬ 
ing, but by the enduring institutions he founded. 

They still speak for him, and those to whom they are commit¬ 
ted continue the great work that he conceived and inaugurated. 


(The above historical sketch is compiled from “All About North- 
field”. 




North field Academy of Useful Knowledge 







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STOCKADE. THE ftftST 
SETTLEMENT OF THIS TOWN 
WAS MADE IN 1673. 

NINE RODS WEST. A FORT WAS 
BUILT IN IP8S. RE BUILT IN 1722. 

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STOOD COUNCIL ROC". 


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WERE SURPRISED 



Main Street, looking South 













Old Trinitarian Congregational Church 




Dickinson Memorial Library 




The Significant Colonial History of Northfield 


By FRANK L. DULEY. 


A study of the dates of settlement of the first towns to bo 
settled in the Connecticut Valley has (great interest for one, par¬ 
ticularly in the long lapse tof time between the settlement of 
Northfield and its first neighbor on the north, Charlestown, N. H. 


Following are given 

1633—Hartford 

1633— Windsor 

1634— Wethersfield 
163 5—Say brook 
1636—Springfield 

163 8—Chicopee 

164 5—Lyme 

1650—Miiddletown 
1645—Northampton 

1659— Hadley 

1660— Westfield 
1662—Haddam 

1670— Hatfield 

1671— Deerfield 


the dates of settlement: 

1673—Northfield 
1682-90—Northfield (Second 
settlement) 

1714-—Northfield (third and 
permanene settlement) 

1740— Charlestown, N. H. 

1741— Westmoreland, N. H. 

1751— Westminster, N. H. 

1752— Walpole, N. H. 

1753— Bellows Falls, Vt. 

1761— Guilford, Vt. 

1762— Brattleboro, Vt. 

1764—Putney, Vt. 


The nearest neighbor on the east at the time of the fir it 
settlement was Groton, settled in 1655, eighteen years earlier 
than that of Nlorthfield, and Groton remained her nearest neigh¬ 
bor on the east until the settlement of Athol in 173 5, twenty-one 
years after Northfield’s third settlement. Northifield’s nearest 
neighbor on the west was Tnoy, N. Y., settled fourteen years 
earlier in 1659, and Troy remained such until the settlement of 
Hoosick Falls in 1688, which took place during the period of 
the second occupation of Northfield, 1682-90. No other towns 
on the east were settled until twenty-three years after the set¬ 
tlement of Northfield, and none on the west until five years be¬ 
fore the third settlement. 

On the north sixty-seven years passed before she had her 
first neighbor in Charlestown, settled in 1740, and that over a 
quarter of a century after her third and permanent settlement. 
Why such a long lapse of time? The answer is found in the 
activities of King Philip and events connected with King Wil¬ 
liam’s War, the American area of the War of the League of 
Augsburg, fought by France against England, Holland, Austria 
and Spain, and ended by the Treaty of Ryewick, 1697; also in 
events connected with Queen Anne’s War, the American area of 


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NORTHFIELD ANNIVERSARY 


the War of the Spanish Succession, fought hy France, Bavaria 
and Spain against England, Holland, Portugal, Austria, Prussia 
and Savoy, and ended by the Treaty of Utrecht, 1713. 

In other words the claim is boldly made that Northfield was 
the spear-point of the English settlements in the Connecticut 
Valley from 1673 until 1690, with a break of seven years, 
against French and Indian power stretching’ southward down the 
valley from Quebec. From 1690, when the second settlement was 
abandoned on order of the General Court, signed June 26, 1690, 
until 1714, Deerfield was that spear-point. During this period 
of twenty-four years the question as to whether the Connecticut 
Valley and New England, and in fact as to whether this whole 
continent was to be French or English, was being decided on the 
battlefields of Europe by the Duke of Marlborough and William 
of Orange, commanding armies in whose ranks fought cousins 
and kinsmen of the settlers living from Saybrook at the mouth 
of the river up as far as Northfield, and also by the kinsmen of 
those Dutch who had settled the Hudson Valley from Manhattan 
to Albany and Troy. The issue, on continental lines, was finally 
decided by Gen. Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham in 1757. 

So this old valley town may take pride in her history as the 
time of celebrating her 250th anniversary draws rapidly near. 


ORGANIZATION 

Dr. N. P. Wood, Chairman 
Mr. T. R. Callender, Recording Secretary 
Mrs. N. P. Wood, Corresponding Secretary 
Mr. P. H. Montague, Treasurer 

GENERAL COMMITTEE. 

Elected by the Town. 

Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Wood 

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Moody 

Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Callender 

Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Montague 

Appointed by General Committee. 

Mr. A. H. Mattoon Mr. Joseph Cembalisty 

Miss Annie Campbell Mrs. J. A. Webster 

Mrs. P. B. Caldwell 

PAGEANT COM|MITTEE. 

Mrs. F. H. Montague 
Mr. J. W. Field 

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE. 

Mr. F. L. Duley Mr. C. E. Bittinger 

Mr. E. F. Howard Mrs. F. B. Caldwell 

COMMITTEE ON FAMILY HISTORIES AND INVITATIONS. 
Mr. A. G. Moody Mrs. L. R. Smith 

Mrs. George Foreman Mrs. Anna Phelps 

Mrs. C. C. Stockbridge Miss Sallie Minot 

COMMITTEE ON SPORTS. 

Mr. John Broderick Mr. T. H. Parker 

Mr. Myron Dunnell Mr. George Carr 

COMMITTEE ON DECORATIONS. 


Mrs. C. C. Stearns 


Mr. Joseph Bittinger 


Mr. Walter Parker 


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NORTHFIELD ANNIVERSARY 


COMMITTEE ON ARTISTIC DESIGNS. 

Miss Bernice Webster Miss Mabel Merriman 


COMMITTEE ON MUSIC. 

Mrs. Josephine A. Webster Mr. Philip Porter 

Mr. Joseph Field Mrs. S. E. Walker 


FINANCE COMMITTEE. 


Mr. Frank Kellogg 
Mr. F. A. Irish 
Mr. R. O. Leach 
Mr. Philip Porter 


Mr. E. M. Morgan 
Mr. C. A. Parker 
Mr. T. H. Parker 
Mr. Ralph Holton 


HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE. 

Dr. and Mrs. A. N. Thompson 

Mrs. F. Z. Allen Mrs. C. E. Williams 


COSTUME COMMITTEE. 

Mrs. F. H. Montague Mrs. N. W. Keet 

Mrs. Martha Gillett 


PROPERTIES COMMITTEE. 


Mr. J. W. Field 
Mr. C. A. Parker 

Mr. L. A. Polhemus 


Mr. Frank Kendrick 
Mr. James Quinlan 
Mr. C. E. Tenney 


RECEPTION COMMITTEE. 

Mrs. A. G. Moody Mrs. A. N. Thompson 

Miss Sallie Minot Mr. F. A. Holton 

Mrs. George Foreman Mr. F. H. Doolittle 

Mr. E. C. Field 


REFRESHMENT COMMITTEE. 

F. W. Doane T. A. Gabb 


COMMITTEE ON GROUNDS. 


F. A. Holton 


F. H. Doolittle 


OFFICIAL PROGRAM 


II 


PARKING COMMITTEE. 

Philip Porter Spencer Brothers 


Abbie H. Robertson 
Ellen C. W. Kimball 

GROUP LEADERS. 

Hinsdale, N. H. 

Dva C. Robertson 

Harold S. Garfield 

Prentis W. Taylor 

H. E. Power* 

Vernon, Vt. 

Mrs. Rena Vaughan 

A. H. Evans 

Gill, Mass. 

Prof. W. S. Yeager 

Dr. R. G. Holton 

A. H. Mattoon 

Northfield 

Mrs. F. H. Montague 

C. M. Steadier 


Mrs. H. M. Haskell George Carr 

Miss Mary MacDonald 


Program 


FRIDAY, JUNE 22. 

11.00 A. M. 

COMMEMORATORY SERVICE. 

Tlo be held at the tablet marking the site of the final set¬ 
tlement of the Town in 1673, located just north of the home of 
Mr. E. M. Morgan, Main street. Address by the Rev. Francis 
W. Pattison. 


2.00 P. M. 

CONCERT 

Given by the Greenfield Military Band, Charles M. Bickford, 
Director, on The Northfleld Hotel grounds. 


3.00 P. M. 

HISTORICAL PAGEANT. 

To be given on the lawn of The Hotel Northfleld. 


7.00 to 10.00 P. M. 

HISTORICAL EXHIBIT. 

Dickinson Memorial Library; Music by Northfleld Orchestra. 


8.00 to 10.00 P. M. 
FRIENDSHIP GATHERINGS. 

1. At the Home of Miss Sallie Minot; receiving with: 
Mrs. Charles Williams 
Mrs. Joseph Field 
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Field 
Rev. and Mrs. Francis W. Pattison 
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Best 



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2. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Foreman; receiving 
with: 

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Holton 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Holton 
Mrs. Minnie Callender 
Hon. Herbert C. Parsons 
Miss Louise Parsons 


3. At D. L. Moody Birthplace; receiving: 

Mrs. A. Percy Fitt 

Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Doolittle 

Rev. and Mrs. R. Edward Griffith 

Rev. Father Carey 

Miss Ethel Moody 

Mrs. Elmer F. Howard 


SATURDAY, JUNE 23. 
9.00 A. M. to 1.00 P. M. 
HISTORICAL EXHIBIT. 
In Dickinson Memorial Library. 


9.30 A. M. 

OUTDOOR SPORTS AND BALL GAME, 
High School grounds 


12.30 P. M. 

t 

OLD HOME GATHERINGS AND BASKET PICNIC. 


High School grounds. 



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2.30 P. M. 

ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 

Given by the Honorable B. Loring' Young, Speaker of the 
Massachusetts House of Representatives; High School grounds. 

Music by School Children, under the direction of Mr. I. J. 
Lawrence; High School grounds. 


7.30 to 8.30 P. M. 

BAND CONCERT. 

By Greenfield Military Band; at Hotel NorthiUld. 


8.30 P. M. 

HISTORICAL PAGEANT. 
On The Northfleld Hotel lawn. 


SUNDAY, JUNE 24. 

11.00 A. M. 

High School Grounds. 

UNION RELIGIOUS SERVICE. 

Address by the Rev. Horace F. Holton, D. D., pastor of the 
Porter Congregational church of Brockton, Mass. If the weather 
is unfavorable this service will be held in the Northfield Semi¬ 
nary Auditorium. 


3.00 P. M. 

High School Grounds. 

HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 

By Hon. Herbert C. Parsons of Boston, Deputy Commis¬ 
sioner and Secretary of Commission on Probation for Massachu¬ 
setts. Music by School Children. 

Five-minute addresses by former pastors of Northfleld. 




St. 


Patrick’s Catholic Church 






































First Parish Unitarian Church 











The Guiding Star 

Pageant 

Written and presented under the direction of 
LEILA M. CHURCH. 


EPISODE I. 

Scene I. 

The discovery of the town location was made by four men 
from Northampton in 1669: Captain Daniel Gookin, Daniel 
Henchman, Captain Thomas Prentice and Captain Richard 
Beers. 

“Children of the mighty forest, 

Where they hunted—sped their arrows;— 
Children of the fertile valley, 

Where the smoke rose from their wigwam”. 

All: 

We, the children of our Fathers, 

Gather now to sing our praises; 

Sing our praises to the sunrise, 

Told by all the birds of forest; 

Sing our praises to the sunset, 

Told by long and darker shadows; 

Sing our praises to Ossoomah, 

To the shining star of evening. 

Ossoomah! Ossoomah! 

Councillor : 

Ossoomah rides the sky of evening, 

And still no braves return from combat. 

Youth : 

From the mountains, O, our Fathers, 

We have looked across the valley; 

Tried to see their shining arrows, 

Hear their shouts, and see their trophies 
Won by Courage from their battles— 

By the Courage spirit Weena. 

Weena! Weena! 



j6 ngrthfield anniversary 

Councillor : 

They go forth to fight the Mohawks— 

Enemies of mighty numbers. 

Youth : 

Strong the arrows, O, our Fathers, 

Of the enemy against us; 

But our braves are still the stronger, 

Speeding arrows ever swifter; 

For the spirit of the skillful 
Keewahnoo will make them surer. 

Kee-wa'h-noo! Kee-wah-noo! 


Councillor : 

To the westward lies their village; 

Far away the Mohawk wigwams. 

Youth : 

O, our Fathers, to the westward 
Speed our braves with faster footsteps! 
In their hands the gleaming arrows! 

In their hands the burning torches! 
Burning all the Mohawk village 
With the flaming fire Wohela. 

Wohela! Wohela! 


Councillor : 

When the enemies are captives, 

Then our hearts shall be more joyous. 

Youth : 

When the tribes shall be forgotten 
Of the enemies about us; 

When the moon shall show deserted 
All their hunting grounds and wigwams; 
Then shall we still roam the valley, 
Dwelling in this land forever. 

Long as dawn shall bring the sunrise; 
Long as evening follows sunset; 

With the guiding star of heaven 
Shining over land and water; 

Until there shall be no longer 
Sky above the land and water, 

Sing and offer praise to Ne-ja! 

To the spirit of our freedom. 

Ne-ja! Ne-ja! Ne-ja! 


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Entrance of Warriors. 

Mount Hermon Students and Northfield 

Councillor : 

Many times the sun has risen and set since you left 11s 
to go forth to battle, and no captives are among you. 

Massenet : 

T. he sun shall rise and set no more on Panoot and our 
braves, for many are the Mohawks, mighty are their num¬ 
bers. 

Nessacoscom : 

The moon shines down on the graves of many of our 
brothers. 

Massenet : 

Tribute must we render; otter and ermine and wampum. 

Councillor : 

We will gather once more and rise against them. 

Nessacoscom : 

Many are the Mohawks; mighty are their numbers. 

Keewis : 

O, our Fathers, many are the white men, whose arrows 
blaze fire and destruction. 

Councillor : 

White men who come, seeking to buy our land. 

Massenet : 

Many are our hunting grounds, and wide our valley. 
With the white man’s wampum we may render tribute to 
the Mohawks. 

Councillor : 

Let us, then, give land to the white man, that we may 
unite with them to be the stronger. 

Massenet : 

Wide are our valleys. Let us give land to the Palefaces, 
whose guns are mighty in combat. Let us make stronger 
our numbers, that we may dwell here forever, with the 
spirit of our Freedom. 

Ne-ja! Ne-ja! Ne-ja! 

INDIAN SINGER. 

Philip Porter 

Indian Warriors Squaws 

Councillors Youths 


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EPISODE II. 

Scene I. 

“And the stars of the sky shall guide them by night; and 
Courage, with her handmaidens — Progress, Religion, Educa¬ 
tion, Industry, Justice, and Patriotism—shall be their day-star 
of might.” 

Dance of the Stars. 


Ida M. Leavis 
Jeanne Monat 
Imogene A. Blossom 
Mary E. Dalton 
Helen M. Parker 
Grace E. Huber 
Marion E. Webster 
Mrs. Jaimes W. Alger 
Beatrice M. Newton 
Mrs. George N. Kidder 
Mrs. Theodore F. Darby 
Mrs. Alfred H. Holton 
Mrs. Dana W. Leavis 
Eleanor P. Mason 
Mary E. Spencer 
Bessie L. Spencer 
Georgia E. Spencer 
Margaret A. Cady 
Elizabeth Dickens 


Spirit of Northfield 
Courage 
Industry 
Religion 
Justice 
Progress 
Education 
Loyalty 

Edna B. Doolittle 
Florence E. Irish 
Marion I. Irish 
Elizabeth N. Neilon 
Mary MacDonald 
Lillian I. O’Clair 
Blanche I. Corser 
Marie B. Bixby 
Esther E. Lane 
Ruth M. Lane 
Agda Sword 


STAR GROUP. 


Scene II. 

“Courage, their guiding star.” 

In the spring of 1673 the first families arrived from North¬ 
ampton to settle on the land already laid out. 

CHARACTERS. 

John Alexander 
George Alexander 
Samuel Wright 
Thomas Webster 
William Miller 
William Clarke 
Joseph Parsons 

Scene III. 

The first summer religious services were held out of doors 
under an oak tree, known later as Memorial Oak. Elder Wil¬ 
liam Janes conducted the services. 


Ralph Hutchinson 
Elder William Janes 
Robert Lyman 
John Hilyard 
Joseph Dickinson 
Micah Mudge 










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Elder Janes : 

“As it has pleased the God of Righteousness to safely 
direct us hither to this pleasant valley, let us sing of that 
love which is our rock and our refuge forever, and offer 
praise to Him for all His goodness”. 

Hymn (Dundee). 

“How sweet and awful is the place, 

With Christ within the doors; 

While everlasting love displays 
The choicest of her stores! 

While all our hearts and all our songs 
Join to admire the feast, 

Each of us cries, with thankful tongues: 

‘Lord, why was I a guest?’ 

’Twas the same love that spread the feast 
That sweetly drew us in; 

Else we had still refused to taste, 

And perished in our sin”. 


Elder Janes : 

And now may our Heavenly Father be with us and 
strengthen us, that we may establish the glory of His King¬ 
dom in a new land. Amen”. 


Scene IV. 

Indian Council. 

Brave : 

The white man’s harvest is more plentiful with each pass¬ 
ing of the moon; many are the Palefaces on our hunting 
grounds. 

Brave : 

The lands of the children of our Fathers grow less, as 
the sun rises and sets. 

Brave : 

The lands of the Pacomtocks and the Nonotucks, down 
the river, have grown less, for many are the white men 
there. 

Brave: 

The Pacomtocks and Nonotucks below us have risen 
against the white man within two suns. The moon shines 
down upon the graves of the white man. 


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Brave: 

Let us drive the Paleface from our land, that vve may 
rejoice in the spirit of our Freedom. Ne-ja! Ne-ja! 


Captain Beers started from Hadley, Friday, September 3, 
with a company of men, and arrived at Northfield on Saturday, 
losing his own. life and that of over half his men in a skirmish 
with the Indians. 

Major Treat, from Hartford, and his men, came to the 
rescue on Monday, September 6, and released the garrisoned 
colonists, and guarded them on their hasty desertion of their 
settlement. 

FIRST SETTLERS. 


Herbert A. Reed 

Mrs. Herbert A. Reed 

Mrs. Bessie Severance 

Mrs. Sidney Tyler 

Ralph Reed 

Alexander H. Pearson 

Mrs. Alexander H. Pearson 

Mrs. Ralph Holton 

Mrs. George Pefferle 

Charles L. Johnson 

Mrs. Charles L. Johnson 

Myron S. Johnson 

Katherine Johnson 

George T. Thompson 

Mrs. George T. Thompson 

Paul Thompson 

Robert Thompson 

Herbert H. Chamberlin 

Mrs. Herbert H. Chamberlin 

Mrs. Thomas H. Parker 

Tommy Parker 

Mrs. D. B. Stevens 

Charles E. Bittinger 

Seth Field 

Eleanor Mobbs 

Harry M. Bristol 

Flora E. Bristol 

Florence N. Streeter 

Belle C. Mason 

Janet Todd 

Clifford Field 

Albert Irish 

Janet Roberts 

Mrs. Leon P. Lilly 

Emily Lilly 

Irene Davis 

Arthur S. Merrill 

Mrs. Arthur S. Merrill 

Bert Newton 

Georgie Piper 

Michael Kelly 


Allen Newton 
Mrs. Clarence Griggs 
Dorothy Gordon 
Elizabeth Gordon 
Anne Gordon 
Frederick Lepan 
Stephen Haranak 
Elizabeth Boltwood 
John Plaranak 
Chauncey Newton 
Mrs. Chauncey Newton 
Mrs. C. C. Stockbridge 
Leon R. Alexander 
Mrs. Bert Newton 
Mrs. Joseph Field 
Mrs. Frank Montaigue 
Robert Quinlan 
Osman Haven 
Genevieve Alexander 
Robert Todd 
Elinor Todd 
William Todd 
Elmer F. Howard 
Miss Saliie Minot 
Richard Tyler 
Edward Reed 
Lawrence Lazelle 
Mrs. Merrill T. Moore 
Merritt C. Skilton 
Mrs. J. A. Stebbins 
T. R. Callender 
Mrs. George Slate 
Mrs. Arnold Holton 
Mrs. Howard Hoxie 
Margaret Hoxie 
Joseph R. Colton 
Mrs. Joseph R. Colton 
Evangeline Colton 
Priscilla Colton 
Robert Ware 
Aaron Newton 


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Captain Beers.Theodore F. Darby 


Gordon Buffum 
Isaac Bellows 
Ray Thompson 
R. W. Lane 
Harry Kelly 
Paul Jordan 
Ralph Holton 


SOLDIERS. 

Max Huber 
Fred Huber 
Donald Finch 
Henry Holton 
George Gordon 
Stanford Sword 
Royal Bryant 


Major Treat 


Fred Bolton 
Franz George 
Earl Shine 
Lee Sheldon 
Henry Bristol 
Stephen Langton 


. Stephen J. Breen 

SOLDIERS. 

George Sheldon 
Roger Lyman 
Robert Abbott 
Alvin Dugar 
Glen Hammond 
Albert Spencer 


EPISODE III. 

Scene 1 . 

“Courage, their day-star of might”. 

Meeting at Northampton, 1714. 

Samuel Partridge : 

The purpose for which we have met has been made plain 
to you all, and the reading of the resolutions you have al¬ 
ready heard, in regard to the re-settlement of the land 
known as Squawkeag, or the North Field. If it is the pleas¬ 
ure of the meeting, Henry Dwight shall now read for you 
these resolutions. 

Dwight : 

“We, the undersigned, do affirm our desire to settle upon 
the lands of Squawkeag, as laid out by the committee ap¬ 
pointed by the General Assembly, and do agree to settle 
40 families upon the same within two years, and that new 
names shall hereby take the place of those departed this 
life since the first and second settlements. The apportion¬ 
ment of the lots already agreed upon herein follows”. 

Samuel Partridge : 

You have heard these resolutions, and several of you have 
already signified your desire to occupy said lands. 

Eleazar Mattoon : 

It has been said that twice the Indians have killed so 




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many that all attempts would be useless to re-settle the 
.North Field. 

Benjamin Wright : 

Ay, useless to settle, if only a few have the courage to go. 
Our safety lies in numbers. 

Eleazar Mattoon : 

Did not the second settlement of 1685 remain but a few 
years, and come straggling back, what were left, like cows 
to the bars, after much killing of their men by the savages? 

Benjamin Wright : 

It is true we came back, but now we go forth again, 
stronger in numbers; and, it please God, and still again, if 
we are beaten back, and again, till the savages themselves 
are driven from the land. 

Samuel Partridge : 

It is my intention to ask if it is the desire of those present 
to sign these resolutions. 

All : 

Aye! Aye! Aye! 

Samuel Partridge : 

Then shall we call for those signatures whose names are 
now read. 

Dwight : 

“Benjamin Wright! Ebenezer Wright! Nathaniel Alex¬ 
ander! Judah Hutchinson ! Joseph Alexander! Joseph Par¬ 
sons ! Isaac Warner! William Boltwood! Timothy Hil¬ 
liard! Joseph Clary! Joseph Root! Eleazar Warner! 
Moses Lyman!” 

Eleazar Mattoon : 

In the space of a short time we may also sign our names, 
who have not already done so: Thomas Taylor, Peter 
Evens, Hesekiah Stratton, Isaac Mattoon, Zechariah Field, 
and Joseph Severance, who have so expressed their willing¬ 
ness. 

Samuel Partridge : 

May we hope . that they, and many others, will be so 
moved. There is not much more to be said, only to wish 
you God-speed. And now, Goodman Alexander, may we 
ask you to implore the Divine blessing on this so mighty an 
undertaking. 

Alexander : 

“O, Gracious Father, Who hath mercifully inclined Thy 


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ear to the cry of distress from many a wilderness, guide us, 
we pray, in safety to this new town which we go forth to 
build, and lead us in truth and in honor, for all time. 
Amen”. 


Scene II. 

The Court granted the petition to be made a town in July, 
1723, and Benjamin Wright was named to assemble the in¬ 
habitants for the election of their own officers. 

B en jamin Wrigh t: 

No news yet of the scouts sent out to discover if old Gray 
Lock is on our path again. Here, if I mistake not, is the 
spot where the savages killed my father in ’75, and if they 
are not brought to terms soon I will myself lead the scouts 
out to teach the Indians a lesson. A messenger! Ho, there! 
What news? 

Messenger : 

A letter for one Benjamin Wright, from Boston. 

Benjamin Wrigh t: 

Then the very one you want addresses you. A letter! 
with the Court’s seal! I cannot delay knowing if our 
petition to become a town is settled. (Opens the letter and 
reads). Praise God! Praise God! Praise God! It is true! 
I have lived to see the day when we can stand on our feet 
alone; a town of our own making! Come on! Come on, 
you savages! We’ll fight you! I say we’ll fight you till you 
haven’t a red skin left! A town meeting we’ll have this 
very day ! Hear ye ! Hear ye ! Town meeting tonight! Hear 
ye! Hear ye! Town meeting tonight. 


CHARACTERS. 

Benjamin Wright .. Rev. R. Edward Griffith 

Jos. Alexander.Leon R. Alexander, (descendant) 

Samuel Partridge .A. S. Gordon 

Henry Dwight. T. R. Callender 

Eleazar Mattoon . L. O. Clapp 

Messenger . Edward Morgan 

Ralph Leach A. S. Merrill 

Clifford Field Herbert A. Reed 

Joseph Colton Alexander Pearson 

Lawrence Lazelle L. Johnson 

E F Howard Dr. G * T - Thompson 

H. H. Chamberlin F - H - Montague 

H. M. Bristol C. E. Bittinger 

Albert Irish 







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EPISODE IV. 

Scene I. 

“Star of the unconquered will, thy name is Courage”. 
Assembly of men and women, 1774. 

EUhu Lyman: 

Friends and neighbors, what think you of the news of the 
Stamp Act that reaches us today? 

Captain Eldad Wright: 

We consider it both unjust and unfair. 

All: 

Unjust! Aye, and unfair! 

Elihu Lyman: 

Are we free men of the colonies or not? 

All: 

We are! 

Elihu Lyman: 

As free men, shall we submit to this injustice? 

All: 

We shall not! 

Elihu Lyman: 

Is there anything we can do? 

All: 

Aye! Aye! Aye! 

Men: 

We can and shall refuse taxation! 

Women’- 

We can refuse English goods! We will spin and weave 
and make our own! 

Men: 

We will endeavor to supply our own wants, and resume 

with new fervor the production of our supplies, for- 

All: 

—rwe rebel against injustice! Our ancestors were led by 
courage to purchase the land and possess it! We are in¬ 
heritors of their courage and of this land, and insist that 
we are free citizens of the American colonies! 

Scene II. 

The Lexington alarm reached Northfield at noon, April 20, 

1775 - 



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M essenger : 

To arms! To arms! The British are at Lexington! To 
arms! 


Scene III. 

Elihu Lyman beat the long roll, and the Northfield men 
were soon on the way to Cambridge. 

Impersonated by Vernon (Vt.) townspeople. 


Elihu Lyman . 
Captain Wright 
Little Girl 


Mrs. Rena Vaughan 
Florence Weatherhead 
Helen Hughes 
Kathleen Gerrish 
Edith Gerrish 
Maude Radway 
Mildred Prescott 
Beatrice Prescott 
Charles Norman 
Gladys Brown 
Roland Stuart 
Hattie Johnson 
Dwight Johnson 
Mary Frost 
Lawrence Johnson 
Ionia Johnson 
Lillian Ainsworth 
Henry Johnson 
Gertrude Brown 
Ellen Johnson 
Leon Brooks 
Edward Church 
Mrs. Edward Church 
Leonard Beach 
Howard Buffum 
Alfred Evans 
Mrs. Alfred Evans 
Florence Ainsworth 
Lillian LaCiount 
Olive Martindale 


.Rev. Alfred Evans 

.H. E. Powers 

.Thelma Holton 

(10th generation) 

W. E. Derrig 
Mrs. W. E. Derrig 
Carl Derrig 
John Miner 
C. H. Wilson 
Philip Holton 
Mrs. Josie E. Holton 
A. V. Jillson 
Claudia Twiss 
W. P. Phetteplace 
Charles Browning 
Archie Ainsworth 
Charles Hale 
Dorothy French 
Gladys French 
Marion Ainsworth 
George Nickerson 
William Walker 
P. W. Burrows 
Mrs. P. W. Burrows 
S. J. Martineau 
Mrs. S. J. Martineau 
Leon Pike 
Maynard Miller 
Grace Johnson 
Doris Ross 
Harold Miner 
H. E. Powers 
Clyde Sherwin 


EPISODE V. 

“The vision of achievement made real by Courage 
In 1815 Timothy Swan was a renowned hat maker. 





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Scene I. 

Broom corn was raised early in 1800, but did not develop 
as an industry until some years later. By 1830 broom making 
Was an established business. 

March of the Ladies of the ’30s and their Brooms. 


LADIES WITH BROOMS. 
(Entrance in order named). 
CAST. 


Mrs. 0. L. Leach 

Mrs. C. A. Parker 

Mrs. Mabel Morgan 

Mrs. R. O. Leach 

Mrs. Robert McNeil 

Mrs. Lucy Ross 

Mrs. C. L. Gilbert 

Miss Florence Adams 

Mrs. E. C. Field 

Mrs. F. V. Wood 

Mrs. F. H. Montague 

Mrs. Oren Darling (83 years old) 


Scene II. 

In 1855 some 155,000 brooms were made in Northfield. 

Dance of the Cornhusk Dolls. 

CORN 

HUSK DOLLS. 

Emma Bigelow 

Edith Miner 

Sophie Bolinski 

Josie Scryba 

Annie Hudzik 

Alice Black 

Jennie Cembalisty 

Minnie Repeta 

Erma Stebbins 

Dorothy Quinlan 

Stella Sleva 

Frances Callaghan 

Ellen Callaghan 

Edna Sleva 

Mary Callaghan 

Anna Saczawa 

Gladys Lapan 

Bessie Cembalisty 

Mary Rep eta 

Virginia Clapp 

Sadie Whitney 

Mary Franco 

Elizabeth Whitney 

Eveline Haven 

Flora Fisher 

Nellie Gmyrek 

Ruth Hammond 

Esther Schyrba 

Polly Parker 

Jane Callaghan 

Helen Letwinsky 

Catherine Sacraiva 

Cora Smolen 

Rose Ladzinski 

Flora Callaghan 

Anna Schryba 

Polly Saczawa 

Cora Sleva 

Catherine Gray 

Ruth French 

Amelia Urgielewicz ' 

Elizabeth Gordon 

Ellen Bolton 

Mary Plotczyk 

Alberta Lane 

Marion Newton 

Annie Skibnouski 

Evangeline Kelly 

Julia Alexander 

Pauline Malbon 

Harriet Atkinson 

Esther Maynard 

Elimore Bryant 

Miriam Moody 

Katherine Cotter 

Dorothy Newton 

Georgia French 

Dorothy Pears-on 


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Anne Gordon 
Dorothy Johnson 
Priscilla Porter 
Polly Pattison 
Helen Urgelewicz 
Elizabeth Kasandi 
Elsie Tiffin Smith 
Sophie Szestowieki 
Evelyn Hill 
Ellen Gardner 
Marjorie Field 
Eunice Holton 
Elsie Havercroft 
Minnie Szestowieki 
Marion Bistrek 
Edna Bistrek 
Doris Clough 
Stella Zabko 
May Dymierskl 
Peter Bartus 
Josie Bartus 
Elsie Tenney 


Marian Bittinger 
Helen Nye 
Stella Skibniouski 
May Thompson 
Christine Gray 
Helen Szestowieki 
Evelyn Havercroft 
Esther Havercroft 
Gladys Hill 
Blanche Hill 
Mary Ruir 
Elsie Whitney 
Tessie Bolinski 
Mildred Hallock 
Marion Wells 
Charlotte Shearer 
Annie Bartus 
Catherine Scoble 
Virginia Stevens 
Elizabeth Ostroski 
Elizabeth Eastman 
Helen Zabko 


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EPISODE VI. 

War Wedding of the Sixties. 

“Go forth, armed zvith right and justice, with Courage to 
guide you”. 

Impersonated by townspeople of Hinsdale, N. H. 

Scene I. 

Arrival of the Guests. 

Scene II. 

The Wedding. 

Scene III. 

The Departure of the Soldiers. 

Scene IV. 

The Soldier’s Farewell 


Scene V. 

The Wedding Guests. 


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CAST. 

Bride: Sybil Stearns 
Groom: Winfred F. Robertson 
Bride's Mother: Ida Stratton 
Minister: Roy D. Taylor 


BRIDE’S MAIDS. 


Lamoile Lang worthy 

Velma Bruce 

Eileen O’Brien 

Elizabeth Kimball 

Mildred Merritt 

Dorothy White 

Teresa Golden 

Ruth Browning 

Elizabeth Hinchey 

Hilda Sawyer 

Mildred Booth 

Mildred Pike 

Lila Stewart 

Priscilla Fay 

Elizabeth Hall 

Marjorie Fay 

SOLDIERS. 

Jessie W. Field 

Lloyd H. Pickett 

Fred A. Buckley 

Leland A. Johnson 

Frank 0. Packard 

Henry Tacey 

Charles F. Dickerman 

Winfred Brooks 

Steven 0. Packard 

Cleveland Standclift 

Joseph A. Howe 

Milton Bigsby 

Frank C. Dickerman 

Fred Dickerman 

Roy E. Pierce 

Clayton Stanclift 

Clarence G. Walker 

Percy Stewart 

Elmer F. Cotons 

Frank Stetson 

Louie E. Dickerman 

Harlan Owen 

Clarence E. Howe 

Raymond Smith 

GUESTS 

AT THE WEDDING. 

Doris M. Garfield 

Michael D. White 

Elizabeth C. White 

Willis D. Stearns 

Marion R. Stearns 

Ezra B. Pike 

Hannah H. Pike 

Clarence B. O’Neal 

Abbie H. Robertson 

John M. Lamb 

Mary Lamb 

Clarence R. Hildreth 

Ellen C. W. Kimball 

John Finn 

Clara L. Stearns 

Montville Crafts 

Bertha D. Mioyer 

Thomas Rouilard 

Mary J. Barron 

Clarence Bevis 

Fannie E. Bouehie 

Paul Young 

Jennie R. Nims 

Ernest Adams 

Rose H. Jeffords 

Gordon Moyer 

Eleanor Jeffords 

William Walter 

Elizabeth R. Stearns 

Ralph Wallace 

Eva S. Fay 

Leonard Young 

Cora H. Smith 

Robert Dickerman 

Mollie H. Booth 

George E. Robertson 

Plila B. Leonard 

Frank W. Jeffords 

Charlotte Sheehan 

Gustavus S. Smith 

Ellen Stearns 

Harry J. J. Lasher 

Doris Stearns 

Joseph R. Reddin 


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Villa Howe 
Bernice Langworthy 
Corrine Stewart 
Nettie Stewart 
Lena H. O’Neal 
Bessie Bodine 
Helen Hildreth 
Clara Stearns 
Maude Dickerman 
Eva C. Robertson 
Louis N. Stearns 
Harold S. Garfield 


Eldon Sargeant 
George Howe 
Alonzo Hudson 
Ivan Harlow 
John W. Royce 
John Cook 
L. H. May 
Leo Marshall 
W alker Kimball 
Roy Merritt 
Harold White 
Prentice W. Taylor 


EPISODE VII. 

"The path of Progress, lit by a guiding star”. 

The Procession of Vehicles. 

The Pillion. 

Rev. Benjamin Doolittle and his bride arrived in Northfield 
to preach in November, 1717. 

Families travelled to settle in a new place in ox cart or flat 
wagon. 

Ebenezer Field, the first blacksmith, and his wife, the first 
teacher, arrived from Deerfield in 1721. 

The Stage Wagon of 1750, sometimes called a “Flying 
Machine”. 

The two-wheeled chair of Jonathan Belding, 1763. 

The stage from Worcester, 1797, brought also mail to the 
newly established post office. 

Early in 1800 several townsmen owned a one-horse chaise. 

The Phaeton of the Victorian Period. 

The Carry-all. 


EPISODE VIII. 

“A Star to Guide”. 

Impersonated by Springfield-Northfield Neighbors and Northfield 

Public Schools. 


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Scene I. 

The World . 

Wisdom and Learning . 

Wealth. 

Man . 

Unlearned Youth. 

Inspiration . 

Hope . 

Endeavor . 


.Fred Crane 

. . . . Rhoda Lyman 
.... Mary S. Field 

.Arthur Field 

, . Ethel F. Jackson 
Mrs. Harry Lyman 
. . Florence Lyman 
Mrs. Walter Fisher 


Wisdom and Learning follow in the Wake of the World. 
Unlearned Youth is striving for Wisdom and Learning. Pov¬ 
erty holds her back. She struggles on, but Wealth stands in 
her way, Man sees her brave attempt; he starts to her aid, 
when suddenly Inspiration comes to him, showing Hope and 
Endeavor which he in turn brings to Unlearned Youth. 
Poverty falls back and also Wealth , and Hope and Endeavor 
help Youth at last to succeed in following Wisdom and 
Learning. 

In 1829 the Northfield Academy of Useful Knowledge was 
incorporated as a school and continued as an institution of 
learning until 1843. 


Bells Song. 

School bells! Clear on the air they ring 
Through all the years 

To youths and maids their warning message 
bring. 

School bells! Calling them all in line— 
Calling to school the boys and girls of 1829. 

Girls: 

Tell us truly what you have there. 

Boys: 

We have our Greek and our Latin prose,. 
And also Cicero. 

Tell us, pray do, what you have there. 

Girls : 

The deep and weighty classics. 

All: 

These are things we know. 











Old Field House and Main Street 



D. L. Moody 

















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31 


A select school for boys and girls succeeded the Academy 
of Useful Knowledge, and was the main source of instruction 
for the youth of the middle nineteenth century. 

Bells Song. 

School bells! Clear on the air they ring 
Through all the years, 

To youths and maids their warning message 
bring. 

School bells! Telling of work to do 

At the select school for the boys and girls 
of ’ 52 . 

Boys : 

Tell us, pray do, what things you learn. 

Girls : 

We learn to paint and to draw and sing. 

We also learn to sew. 

Tell us, truly, what you best know. 

Boys : 

At Euclid rules we labor— 

These are things we know. 

The Northfield Seminary was founded by Mr. Dwight L. 
Moody in 1879. Inspiration came to him to give to worthy 
girls the opportunity for the education they might earnestly 
desire. 

The first graduation was in 1884, with a class of twelve. 
Bells Song. 

School bells! Clear on the air they ring 
Through all 'the years, 

To youths and maids their warning message 
bring. 

Ring out! Still sweeter than before; 

School days are through, life starts anew 
for the girls of ’84. 

Girls : 

Ring out, sweet bells! We won this day, 

With Hope to guide, and Endeavor, too, 

To lead us on our way. 

Life shows other ways, yet there appears 
Endeavor leading onward through future years. 


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BELLS. 


Esther Morgan * 



Helane Hill 

Gertrude Irish 



Evelyn Atwood 

Winifred Irish 



Gladys French 

Dorothy French 



Bernice Billings 


CLASS 

OF 

1829. 

Acton Civill 



Estelle Sword 

Lewis Wood 



Grace Lavelle 

Leon Dunnell 



Ethelynd Sheldon 

Faul Judson 



Ruth Gordon 

Malcolm Billings 



Sophie Glabach 

Linwood Bryant 



Annie Kelly 

Chandler Holton 



Agatha Podlenski 

Vincent Barnes 



Esther Tenney 

Fred Irish 



Elsie Holton 


CLASS 

OF 

1852. 

Lawrence Quinlan 



Ida Sheldon 

lone Miller 



Walter Aldrich 

James Dale 



Helen Whitney 

Clara Hill 



Dean Williams 

Francis Reed 



Anna Bistrek 

Elizabeth Royce 



Richard Clough 

Stanley Bistrek 



Kathleen Gerrish 

Elizabeth Cembalisty 



Gordon Reed 

Clinton Ware 



Anna Urgielewicz 


CLASS OF 

1884. 

Edna Cullen 



Vera Barrnes 

Alice Taber 



Lucy Stewart 

Mary Turtle 



Mildred Pearson 

Gladys Elithorpe 



Nellie Vaughn 

Elizabeth Dickens 



Jean Hall 

Eva Nassif 



Dorothy Judson 


EPISODE IX. 

“The quenchless star — Courage”. 

World War Scene. 

Clear rang the trumpet, War’s martial sound. 
Rousing the men across the sea. 

Quick came their help, when they rallied ’round 
To fight Where the need of their strength might be. 

They came with drums and with marching feet; 

Brave, in their youth, with cheer and song; 

Their eyes were bright with quenchless hope, 

With eager hope, as they marched along. 


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Ah, they fought—those men—those gallant youth ! 

And they fought with a courage we can’t forget! 

And a mighty throng are dead and still— 

They are wounded—dying —but fighting yet! 

With faltering strength they look to us; 

Look to the land so brave and great! 

They’re waiting—watching—for our men! 

Will they come—will they come too late? 

Hasten, men! Prove your country’s pride 
In the land that mighty deeds spring from! 

Let those heroes shout from ev’ry side— 

O, God be praised ! The Americans come! 

Spirit of Northfield'- 

I am the Spirit of Northfield! Let me know sacrifice, 
and let me know sorrow; for I shall also know that I am on 
the side of the oppressed. Gladly and freely, then, I give 
my sons to you, in the name of humanity. 


AMERICAN LEIGON. 


Arthur 1>orr 
Ector Wallet 
Richard G. Holton 
Fred Huber 
Max Huber 
Charles Schauwecker 
Max Stedenfeld 
Albert Spencer 
Edward H. Fleming 
Clarence M. Steadier 
George McEwan 
L. E. Smith 

F. C. Schauwecker 
T. M. Daniel 

H. C. Risdon 
L. W. Minor 
C. G. Ross 

G. T. Parkington 
K. L. Dickinson 


L. W. Clarke 
A. M. Johnson 

M. H. Snow 
H. D. Parker 
H. W. Ninis 
W. L. Ross 
W. C. Reed 
J. N. Lincoln 
T. Pedersen 

R. R. Johnston 
Paul Jordan 
Charles La Bella 
Fred Tanski 
Harry Murray 
Fred B'olton 
Harold Thomas 
John Broderick 
Miles Morgan 


JUSTICE. 

(To be announced) 


SPIRIT OF NORTHFIELD. 
Ida E. Leavis 


34 


NORTHFIELD ANNIVERSARY 


EPISODE X. 

“The Guiding Star \ 

History : 

I am History! For you I have turned back the page of 
Time to show you Progress, leading men through the wil¬ 
derness ; Religious Freedom, the beginning of Democracy 
and Justice, and Education, and Industry. I have shown 
you Patriotism, who has inspired men to do all things—to 
be all things for the land we love best. And these have been 
day-stars of might. But, greatest of all, I have shown you 
Courage, the guiding star; and finally, the Spirit of North- 
field, with her inheritance of achievement and her respon¬ 
sibility to achieve. 

HISTORY. 

Mrs. Ambert G. Moody. 

O, Northfield, fair the green-clad fields 
Thy girdling hills unfold; 

But fairer still the words and deeds 
Of all thy men of old. 

What stories, brave and fine and true, 

Of all thy early years; 

No threading stream through valley wide 
So fair and bright appears. 

With strength and will to stand the fight, 

Each heart with hope was thrilled; 

With glorious courage, step by step, 

Their vision was fulfilled. 

O, Northfield, guard thy honored name; 

Let Courage shine afar, 

Down all the years, a beacon light, 

To be thy guiding star. 



OFFICIAL PROGRAM 


35 


ATHLETIC EVENTS. 

1. 50 yard Dash, for men. 

2. 50 yard Dash, for boys up to 14 years. 

3. Running Broad Jump. 

4. Running High Jump. 

5. Standing Broad Jump. 

6. Sack Race. 

7. Potato Race. 

8. Potato Race, for boys up to 14 years. 

9. Three-legged Race. 

10. Shot Put. 

Base Ball Game, Married Men vs. Single Men. 


BOSTON & MAINE R. II. 
East Northfleld 
Leave, north bound. 
Standard Time. 

7.25 and 10.07 a. m. 

4.50 and 8.53 p. m. 

Leave, south bound. 
4.45 and 8.25 a. m. 

1.29 and 5.47 p. m. 

ASiHUELOT BRANCH 
Leave. 

4.10 and 8.25 a. m.. 

Arrive 

1.14 and 7.51 p. m. 

CENTRAL VERMONT R. R. 
Northfleld 

Leave south bound. 

8.24 a. m. 

1.54 p. m. 

Leave, north bound. 
9.40 a. m. 

4.25 p. m. 





GENERAL INFORMATION 


ADMISSION TO PAGEANT. 


Children (Including War Tax).$ -35 

Adults (Including War Tax) .50 

Including unreserved seat and War Tax. 1.00 

Including reserved seat and War Tax. 1.50 


Reserved seats may be secured in advance of Frank W. Kellogg 
at The Northfield, East Northfield, Mass. 

Accommodations. 

Accommodations may be engaged through the Hospitality com¬ 
mittee or at the office of The Northfield hotel in private boarding 
houses. 


Rest Rooms Provided. 

The vestries of the Unitarian chjurch in Northfield and Trin¬ 
itarian Congregational church in East Northfield, also Dickinson 
Memorial Library are available as rest rooms. 

Information Bureau. 

Information may be had on matters pertaining' to the celebra¬ 
tion and of the care of visiting guests and their comfort at Dick¬ 
inson Memorial Library, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 10 
p. m. Inquire for Mr. or Mrs. Fred Hale, whjo are in charge. 

Public Telephone. 

A telephone has been installed for the convenience of visiting 
guests at the information bureau in Dickinson Memorial Library. 

First Aid Quarters. 

A room in the High School building’ is arranged for first-aid 
service in emergencies, with the Community Nurse, Miss Beth 
Britton in charge. 


HISTORIC PLACES. 

Pechaug Hill, on road to Hinsdale, N. H.; Indian atrocities. 

Ledge in front of Trinitarian Congregational church; Indian 
atrocities. 

Webster Hill, Main street; site of old fort. 

E. M. Morgan place, South Main street; site of final settle¬ 
ment, old fort and Council Rock. 

W. J. Wright place, Stouth Main street; site of first religious 
service. 

Beers Plain, Plain street; burial place of Capt. Beers; Indian 
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